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- 801: African Americans
- ... Americans Black Americans are those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, coloured, Negro, Afro-American, and African-American, as well as black. The black population of the United States has grown from three-quarters of a ... urban people. Their shift from the rural South to cities of the North and West during the 20th century constitutes one of the major migrations of people in U.S. history. This enormous shift of population has put severe strains on the fabric and social structure within both the old and new communities of migrating blacks. If one adds to this ... the Nation of Islam, often referred to as the Black MuslimsThe Peace Mission is strongly integrationist in teachings, a concept opposed by the Nation of Islam during most of its history. In recent years the racial character of leadership and members of the Peace Mission have become increasingly white. In 1985 the main Black Muslim group was unified with the ...
- 802: 1968
- ... also dirt road or path called Ho Chi Minh Trail. WAS 1968 THE WORST WE'VE EXPERIECED Was Nineteen sixty-eight truly the most devastating year in all of American History? A few points to prove this statement true is: the Kent shooting, the Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, the Robert Kennedy assassination, the TET Offensive, American Riots, the My Lai Massacre, the Democratic convention, the height of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was also a big upset in the history of "OUR" country. A few points that prove this statement false is the Civil War in 1861 untill 1865, the Cold War which followed immediately after World War II through ... a few of the many, many terrible things that happened in 1968. My opinion of the statement is that it was the most terrible year in all of America's History. I feel this way because of how all the terrible things happened in the same year. I mean, all the terrible incidents I had listed above were bad but ...
- 803: The Roaring Twenties
- ... 16,410,030 shares. By mid-November, stock prices had plunged 40%. The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. Many Americans felt ... techniques and methods, whether it have been through such positive activities as investing, or negative activities as bootlegging. There were many famous Americans who left a positive mark on the history of the United States during the Twenties. One of the most famous was Charles A. Lindbergh, an aviator who is noted in his achievement of being the first person to ... enjoying new dances such as the Charleston, popular for the time, and watching such sporting events as baseball, and boxing. Famous people emerged in the Twenties leaving their mark on history, just as new inventions were created revolutionizing even the simplest of activities for years to come. The Twenties were a fabulous decade outlined by a booming economy, and big ...
- 804: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... Negroes; on the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four;" and slave owners "probably made up less than a third of southern whites." From the US History textbooks in an elementary school to the Civil War journals of a major university, these lines are reprinted and repeated in an attempt to shape the perception of the public and to ease the insecurities of a nation embarrassed by slavery, an institution that supposedly marred its glorious history, or so says Otto H. Olsen. In an article that appears in the journal of Civil War History of 1972 entitled, "Historians and the Extent of Slave Ownership in the Southern United States" Olsen attempts to challenge the widely accepted notion that slave ownership was confined to ...
- 805: Roaring Twenties
- ... 16,410,030 shares. By mid-November, stock prices had plunged 40%. The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. Many Americans felt ... techniques and methods, whether it have been through such positive activities as investing, or negative activities as bootlegging. There were many famous Americans who left a positive mark on the history of the United States during the Twenties. One of the most famous was Charles A. Lindbergh, an aviator who is noted in his achievement of being the first person to ... enjoying new dances such as the Charleston, popular for the time, and watching such sporting events as baseball, and boxing. Famous people emerged in the Twenties leaving their mark on history, just as new inventions were created revolutionizing even the simplest of activities for years to come. The Twenties were a fabulous decade outlined by a booming economy, and big ...
- 806: Naval Battles
- The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To prevent ... than the ironclads used in the Civil War, but they are hundreds if not thousands times more powerful. Although the wooden ship has proved extremely effective in naval battles throughout history, the advent of the ironclad totally revolutionized the way in which naval forces around the world approach warfare. "From the moment the two ships opened fire that Sunday morning, ...
- 807: Why The North Won The Civil Wa
- ... he was, that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. A wise man indeed. Appendices (Note: appendices taken from Brinkley et al. 315-17, 415) Works Cited Angle, Paul M. A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967. Brinkley, Alan, et al. American History: A Survey. New York: McGraw, 1991. Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952. ---. The Coming Fury. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961. Vol 2 of The Centennial History of the Civil War. 3 vols. n.d. ---. Reflections on the Civil War. Ed. John Leekley. 1st ed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. "Civil War." Encyclopedia Americana. 1987 ...
- 808: Historical Analysis On 1920s
- ... Wedding Band" truly captures the essence of the time and place in which the play was set in. That era (1915-1931) is one of the most significant in the history of this young nation. The decade of the 1920's is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of the bath tub gin, the model T, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It was a high point in African-American history as well. The Harlem Renaissance took shape; it was a time when African Americans began an intellectual movement. Harlem became the center of African-American culture. Most African-Americans began ... and sexual conflicts, he wrote about southern violence, Harlem street life, poverty, prejudice, hunger, and hopelessness. These great minds of the Harlem Renaissance will eternally live on in the proud history of African-Americans. In 1915, the Ku Klux Klan receives a charter from the Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court. The organization spreads quickly, reaching its height in the 1920s ...
- 809: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- The history of colonial North Carolina is bombarded with frequent strife and turmoil. The people of North Carolina, because of a lack in supervision from the British monarchy, learned to possess an ... by 1772, just one year later, about 1,500 of the former Regulators left North Carolina (12). The importance of the Battle of Alamance and its proper place in American history have been topics of discussion not only in North Carolina, but across the country. I gathered this fact from the area from which my sources came. I noticed that the ... one of the primary thrusts of North Carolina's role in the Revolutionary War. Because of the research I have done I am encouraged to find out more about the history of North Carolina. The Battle of Alamance should be covered in every American history course simply because it illustrates the desire for independence many colonists had during this time ...
- 810: Land Of Desire
- ... main sections of the book, which end up being the three main steps in the transformation into capitalism. The first entitled Strategies of Enticement, went into a little bit of history, as well as the first recognition of capitalism and were it all began. The second section, Circuits of Power, retold stories of how the public reacted to the whole thing ... capitalism. The final major section of the book, Managing a Dream Culture, displayed the managerial aspects of capitalism and the poeple behind it. Then, the last pages illustrate how the history in the book affected our country today, hence the its Legacies. It pretty much sums up why what happened was important and the such. "This book exhibits how this older ... capitalism being chosen. It starts out with what led up to the idea of capitalism, including the merchant John Wanamaker and the retail wars. It sets up the most vital history to understanding the whole transmission into capitalism. The next step to the up and rising consumer industry was the elaborate and aesthetically pleasing forms of advertisement that began. It ...
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